Mild reductions in mitochondrial citrate synthase activity result in a compromised nitrate assimilation and reduced leaf pigmentation but have no effect on photosynthetic performance or growth

Plant Physiology

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 115-127

  Sienkiewicz Porzucek, Agata ^a   Nunes Nesi, Adriano ^a   Sulpice, Ronan ^a   Lisec, Jan ^a   Centeno, Danilo C ^a   Carillo, Petronia ^b   Leisse, Andrea ^a   Urbanczyk Wochniak, Ewa ^a   Fernie, Alisdair R ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM;

AMINO ACID; CARBON; CITRATE SYNTHASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ISOENZYME; NITRATE; NITROGEN; PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; CELL RESPIRATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; ENZYMOLOGY; FLOWER; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACIDS; CARBON; CELL RESPIRATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FLOWERS; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION; ISOENZYMES; LIGHT; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MITOCHONDRIA; NITRATES; NITROGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

EID: 50649120908     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.108.117978     Document Type: Article

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